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Beat the Streak Report: April 6

By the time the smoke cleared Tuesday night, carnage stretched far and wide across Streakland.

That twisted hulk of hope and dreams out your left window? It’s a four-gamer dismembered by Robinson Cano. The steaming wreckage on your right? It’s barely recognizable now, but that thing was five games before it ran into Ichiro Suzuki.

And of course, there’s the 10.4 percent of you — err, us — who picked Hanley Ramirez …

We know it was painful to watch, but it’s better that you witnessed this. Six of Tuesday’s top eight picks went south, taking more than 30 percent of all Streakers back to square one with them. Only Albert Pujols and Howard Kendrick escaped unscathed.

In times like these, we have no choice but to carry on. No choice but to build our newest streaks longer and stronger than those that have fallen by the wayside. Be strong, Streakers. Grief counselors are standing by in the comments.

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I’m having a tough time deciding if I should stay with Mauer since he hits Freddy well, or if I should avoid him since he is only 2-14 on the year. H. Kendrick has been hot and he looks like a good pick but he is facing a pitcher that he’s never seen before. Hellickson pitched well last year also. Decisions, decisions…

Good job Yanks. Glad to see your doing well as well. Mention tomorrow if you keep it going in my blog tomorrow. Also Baseball girlie stay far away from new pitchers. They are tricky. They can either shut the other team down since it is the first time seeing him or they can get rocked. Last year most of the first time pitchers shut the other team down. Miggy is going to kill a lot of people today as he can’t hit in Baltimore.

@vinny- good point, and Hellickson pitched really well in his brief MLB season last year. I am staying with Mauer even though he is not hitting well this year. Hoping that he can get it started against a pitcher that he hits well against. GL to you and all bloggers today!

@vinny1979 I saw that Miguel Cabrera’s O fer came against Jake Arrieta. JA is a young pitcher that made his debut last year against us and I took Nick Swisher based off his numbers against Jeremy Guthrie when I had a 17 game hit streak thinking that we were seeing JG instead. I was looking at the preview on my phone, when I found out that Arrieta was starting instead. I was shocked and was no where near a computer. It was 12:15 on a 12:30 lock day that I saw the preview and I was no where near a computer. I never pick against new/unfamiliar pitchers unless by accident.

I meant to say: It was 12:15 on a 12:30 lock day that I saw the preview and I could not reach a computer in time. I never pick against new/unfamiliar pitchers unless it’s by accident.
I stay far far away from Arrieta ever since the Swisher incident.

I wouldn’t 2nd guess yourself too much. Kendrick pickers were lucky. You, all of us, are picking against the starter pitcher, not unknown relievers. Anytime your only hit comes off a reliever, count yourself lucky, not good IMO

Craaaappppp! 18 hits, 2 extra inning ABs, and I pick the guy that goes 0-7. Oh well back to the drawing board.
Let’s go Zimmerman, keep our blogger representative up there.
GL to the rest of you tonight as well.
M

@Vinny. I rarely pay attention to ballpark stats. However, lifetime stats: better at home than away, but still 307 away. 1st half season AVG better than 2nd half, 328 April AVG, 305 vs O’s, 320 at night…. 186 lifetime at Camden, but only 48 ABs over his 11/12 year career. I think the other stats far outweight, risk-wise, that one stat.

@00Liber. How’s that saying go…. “Without bad luck, I’d have no luck at all”. I thought about that while watching tail end of the game. When ChiSox took lead at top of 10th I thought you were done. Then a tie and Beckham actually gets to bat 2 more times; unfortunately, for naught.

Well it is raining in New York right now and Joe Mauer is not in the line-up. I have a feeling I will stay at one or if the game gets played Mauer will probably pinch hit and get out in his only at bat.

I want to thank all of you for your support for my season opening streak. I will admit that I was luke warm I had a total of 7 hits during the first 6 days. I was just lucky for them to all be spread out. In 4 of those 6 days I had to wait until at least their 4th appearance so I was getting some nice luck. I will say I’m glad that I’m getting reset tonight so my better runs can be saved for later in the season.

I don’t regret this pick Zimmerman took a lot of people down including the top 4 in the bloggers. At least he got a final chance, that would have been terrible to only get up once in the last 5 innings.

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